After reading “An Eye for the Coast” by Eric Hudson and discussing relational space last class, I couldn’t help but think about Hudson and his relationship to Monhegan Island. After traveling the world, Hudson first saw Monhegan from a couple of Marshall Johnson sketches. At this point in time Monhegan was just a space for Hudson, he had not emotional attachments to it and only knew it for its landscape. When he finally visited the island, he claimed “He had never seen a greater beauty than this island” (Hudson, 5). The combination of the island having a small population and being hard to access made Monhegan a special place to him. The island very quickly became a place for Hudson, building a house on it shortly after his visit (Hudson, 5). Hudson captured the beauty in things that nobody else would have thought to capture, such as the fishermen and the fishing industry. These works eventually turned Monhegan into a relational space because of his depictions of the processes that occurred on this island. These depictions caused people to associate Monhegan with the raw beauty that Hudson had captured, even after his death. He changed the ‘field of flows’ on Monhegan forever – exposing its unique beauty in ways never seen before. Although Monhegan has changed significantly since Hudson’s death, he still affects the thoughts and ideas that are associated with the island today. It was interesting to me to see the development of Monhegan as a space in Hudson’s life in “An Eye for the Coast” after discussing the different kinds of spaces/places in our last class.